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Sounds like blackmail to me.

We still do live in America, don’t we? I do not understand what is happening in this country lately. It’s as if all common sense and tolerance has been beaten to a bloody pulp, and in its place, we now have hatred, finger-pointing, and mass paranoia.

The above email include books written by incest and rape survivors. GONE! How about the shifter books? Werewolves are wolves, and we can’t have them cohabiting with humans! That’s BESTIALITY. Gone as well. And if they get their way with this, what’s to stop them from becoming even more demanding? “I don’t like stories about inter-racial couples. I consider them obscene. Stop selling them or we’ll pull the plug.” Give in once and they’ll go after more.

Blackmail. Censorship. I’m so ashamed of my country right now. The politicians are out of control, there is divisiveness at every turn, and I’m really starting to wonder if I should move somewhere else. Anyone know of a small island for sale?